Vanished teen's body lay in mum's garden for two months

Vanished teen's body lay in mum's garden for two months

JUNGLE: The overgrown garden where Miller Redpath's body was found [ALBANPIX]

Miller Redpath, 18, vanished two days before he was due to receive his A-level results.

His widowed mum Anastasia had spent weeks scouring the streets and making media appeals for information about her only son.

But police made the grim discovery on Thursday, a week after the public schoolboy was officially declared missing.

The body was said to be so decomposed it was impossible to tell whether it was male or female.

Yesterday a post-mortem and DNA tests were being carried out.

VANISHED: Miller went missing two days before he was due to receive his A Level results

“Miller was a really nice boy who was always kind and polite”

A neighbour

Miller, a pupil at the £21,000-a-year Langley School in Norfolk, was last seen lying in bed by his mum on the morning of August 13.

They had agreed to go to a ­religious sunrise service on Southwold beach near their home in ­Wenhaston, ­Suffolk. But Anastasia, an accountant, said her son had been grumpy and she left him in bed while she headed off.

She was not alarmed about his disappearance at first because he had a habit of going away unannounced.

But she began to worry two days later when she discovered Miller had not taken his phone charger, money or bank cards.

She later told police items were missing from their home and feared her son was too ashamed to return.

LAST SEEN: Miller's mother last saw him lying on his bed at their home in Wenhaston

Yesterday a neighbour who did not want to be named said: “Miller was a really nice boy who was always kind and polite.

“Everyone was concerned when we heard he was missing.”

Another neighbour, Carol Townshend, 58, said: “This must be awful for the poor lad’s mother.”

Suffolk Police said: “An investigation will take place to establish the circumstances surrounding the deceased person’s death.”